Tableau Public
Tableau Public is a free product of Tableau which provides some limited functionalities for those who want to learn data visualization and understand business Intelligence. It majorly targets students who want to deep dive into the field of business analytics. But it has one demerit that the work which you will do will not be only till you. It will be shared over the network as it does not support security.
Merits of Tableau Public:
- Tableau Public is accessible to people and organizations with restricted budgets as well as those who wish to share data publicly but aren’t constrained by money thanks to its free availability.
- Open data sharing: It gives users a platform to openly publish their dashboards and visualizations, facilitating more information diffusion, increasing transparency, and encouraging data-driven dialogues.
Demerits of Tableau Public:
- Tableau Public visualizations can be accessed by anybody, hence it is not possible to share data on this platform that contains sensitive or private information. Before utilizing Tableau Public for sensitive data, organizations must carefully examine the consequences for data privacy and security.
- Limited data sources: Tableau Public has restrictions on the types of data sources that can be connected to. It supports only a limited number of data connectors, which may not be sufficient for complex or enterprise-level data analysis.
- Data size limitations: There are limitations on the size of datasets that can be uploaded and processed in Tableau Public. Large datasets or those with extensive complexity may not be suitable for analysis on this platform.
- Internet dependence: A working internet connection is necessary to access Tableau Public visuals. In places with poor connectivity, offline access or restricted access may be a problem.
Different Tableau Products and its Applications
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool developed by Salesforce. It has a vast number of extensible files which helps in making the data to be visualized easily either in the form of pdf, word, excel, JSON, SQL, statistical file and many more. It supports more than 50 +file formats.
It has the capability to perform various complex operations, and analytics just in a single step of simply dragging and representing in a span of milliseconds. Other than this it also offers various customization options, filters and complex calculations, maps and different types of graphs like bar graphs, histograms, heat maps, box plots and many more.
Tableau offers different-different types of products based on the tasks to perform.
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Online
- Tableau Server
- Tableau Public
- Tableau Prep
Let’s talk about all these Tableau Products in detail.